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Oct 21, 2026, 7:00 a.m. EDT5 min readComptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)SummaryThe U. S. agency that regulates national banks and trusts has issued the first final rule putting the GENIUS Act into place in January, though a number of other regulators are still working on other parts of the implementation. The section on stablecoin yield doesn't offer a lot of detail on what activity may fall under the law's wide prohibition of such yield from issuers, but the crypto industry has already interpreted GENIUS to permit the rewards programs that have become commonplace with stablecoin activity on exchanges. The final rule states that pre-existing rewards programs won't get special treatment as the OCC assesses which ones pass regulatory muster. U. S. crypto exchanges that have long been giving people rewards for usings stablecoins will have to get the agency to sign off on those existing programs, according to the U. S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the first federal banking regulator to issue a final rule under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U. S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. The OCC, which oversees U. S.

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Decentralized exchange PancakeSwap’s total value locked (TVL) grew nearly 19% over the past week, adding about $380 million as the protocol moves toward a major overhaul of how it distributes trading fees to liquidity providers. According to DefiLlama, PancakeSwap’s TVL climbed to $2.4 billion on Wednesday, up from about $2.02 billion on Oct. 14. The increase was concentrated in its V3 liquidity pools, where TVL more than doubled to about $739 million from $336 million over the same period. The growth coincided with PancakeSwap opening a governance vote on a proposal called “The Flip,” which would increase liquidity providers’ share of swap fees on V3 and Infinity pools to 88%, up from 66%-68% on most pools. The proposal would also gradually reduce daily CAKE token emissions by approximately 69%, from 22,500 to 7,000 tokens. Voting opened on Wednesday, Oct. 21, and will run until Oct. 24, with implementation expected to begin in November if approved.